James A. Garfield Quotes on Growth

3 quotes

  1. 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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  2. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

  3. Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

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