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- No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms.
- Brown
- Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
- Dr. A. B. Meldrum
- To him who is determined it remains only to act.
- Italian
- The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
- David Seabury
- Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
- John Oliver Hobbes
- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards
- A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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