When I begin my work in the morning, I expect to have a successful and pleasant day of it, but at the same time I prepare myself for unpleasant and unexpected hard places.
Washington outlines his daily mental preparation for work, balancing optimism for success with readiness for challenges.
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In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.