Labour may be a burden and a ...

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
 Samuel Smiles

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
 Monica Crowley
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
 Morihei Ueshiba

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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
 Samuel Smiles
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
 Samuel Smiles
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
 Samuel Smiles
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
 Samuel Smiles
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
 Samuel Smiles