Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed
confidence
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments
home
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
ability luck men
A critic is a legless man who teaches running
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
man
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
happiness
The important thing is to use today wisely and well, and face tomorrow eagerly and cheerfully and with the certainty that we shall be equal to what it brings.
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar
A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run
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