Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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It may encourage dissatisfaction with adequate performance.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
'At the age of 6, I wanted to be a female cook. At 7, Napoleon. After that, my ambition just went on growing. I wanted to be Salvador Dali and nobody else.'
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.