One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the…
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. B… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. B…
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make you… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make you…
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kin… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kin…
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else ou… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else ou…
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime fac… - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime fac…
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