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I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A useless life is an early death.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn’t matter much else what they find.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.