"One of the commonest mistakes and one of……" — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success."
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33 Quotes by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.
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Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine.…
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
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This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is…
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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its…
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Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a…
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Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads…
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Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is…
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The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his…
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