Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln · Advice to Isham Reavis, a young man who had asked to study law under him, in a letter of 5 November 1855.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Attributed to Abraham Lincoln · No record exists of Lincoln saying it; the line first appeared in a Syracuse newspaper column by Dr. Frank Crane on January 1, 1914, nearly fifty years after Lincoln's death.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt · From his Labor Day "Square Deal" speech at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, 7 September 1903.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington · First printed in his serialised memoir in The Outlook in 1900, then in chapter 2 of Up From Slavery.

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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”