About the time we can make ...

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
 Herbert Hoover

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next.
 Herbert Hoover
Hunger is the mother of anarchy.
 Herbert Hoover
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
 Herbert Hoover
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.
 Herbert Hoover
Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
 Herbert Hoover