Nuggets for motivation
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work. Pleasure is only a palliative.
A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is only half alive.
Society comprises two classes. Those who have more food than appetite, and the those who have more appetite than food.
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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