People do not lack strength; they lack will.—Victor Hugo.

Every man stamps his own value upon himself, and we are great or little according to our own will.—Samuel Smiles.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth of the power and will to succeed.—Whipple.

As men in a crowd instinctively make room for one who would force his way through it, so mankind makes way for one who rushes toward an object beyond them.—Dwight.

There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys.—Seth Low.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—Franklin.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.—Emerson.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.—Bacon.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine.... Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and sends us home to add one stroke of faithful work.—Emerson.

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