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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

You are the land. The land is you.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.