Determination

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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

New York Times (1985)
Whatever I am engaged in I must push inordinately.

Personal memorandum (1868)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays