CLEAR ALL
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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We are what we believe we are!
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.