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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. - Author object (78)

This problem, once solved, will be simple. - Author object (78)

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Author object (78)

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. - Author object (78)

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Author object (78)

The value of an idea lies in using it. - Author object (78)

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation. - Author object (78)

We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak. - Author object (78)

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it. - Author object (78)

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. - Author object (78)

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. - Author object (78)

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Author object (78)

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Author object (78)

If we did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. - Author object (78)

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Author object (79)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Author object (79)

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Author object (79)

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Author object (79)

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. - Author object (79)

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Author object (79)