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Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.



Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.



Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.



Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.



Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.



Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.



Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.



The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.



The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.



Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.



The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.



If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.



Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages.








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