I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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