One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word 'decide' contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success. Remember the Chinese proverb, 'With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days in it a single hour comes, quite like a other hours but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-face or disguised.
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Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.
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Be strong we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, tis gods gift. Be strong say not the days are evil whos to blame And fold your hands and acquiesce o shame Stand up, speak out, and bravely in gods name. Be strong It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long Faint not, fight on Tomorrow comes the song.
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The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.
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