Man's own youth is the ...

Man\'s own youth is the world\'s youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth\'s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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
We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.
 Arthur Jones
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
 Kim Nam-joon
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.
 Jon Lovitz

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne