 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1892 - 782 pages
...asked who made him. His reply was, "God made me so long and I growed the rest." Gurfield once said, "If the power to do hard work is not talent it is the bes* poss ble substitute for it." Things don't turn up in this world until some one turns them up.... | |
 | 1881 - 590 pages
...buttoned up under his shabby coat. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. It is no honour or profit merely to appear in the arena. The wreath is for those who contend. For the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 518 pages
...uncertain than the result of any one throw ; few things more certain than the result of many throws." " If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it." "Every character is the joint product of nature and nurture." "Not a man of iron, but of live oak."... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 pages
...uncertain than the result of any one throw ; few things more certain than the result of many throws." " If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it." " Every character is the joint product of nature and nurture." "Not a man of iron, but of live oak."... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - United States - 1881 - 354 pages
...uncertain than the result of anyone throw, few things more certain than the result of many throws. IF the power to do hard work is not Talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. OCCASION may be the bugle-call that summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1881 - 204 pages
...actually sacrificing a bull to Jupiter in the backparlor of his house in London. Talent's Substitute. 31. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. The Fruits of Occasion. 32. Occasion may be the bugle-call that summons an army to battle, but the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1881 - 380 pages
...the one thing you are now doing." throw ; few things more certain than the result of many throws." " If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it." " Every character is the joint product of nature and nurture." " Not a man of iron, but of live oak."... | |
 | 618 pages
...consciously saved yourself. ORIGINAL MAXIMS OF JAMES A. GARFIELD. THINGS don't turn up in this world unless somebody turns them up. Luck is an ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but not to success. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of lack. I would rather be beaten in right than succeed... | |
 | James Baird McClure - Presidents - 1881 - 488 pages
...uncertain than the result of any one throw; few things more certain than the result of many throws. — IF the power to do hard work is not Talent, it is the best pos sible substitute for it. —OCCASION may be the bugle-call that summons an army tc battle, but... | |
 | Secrets - 1882 - 74 pages
...uncertain than the result of any one throw ; few things more certain than the result of many throws. " If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. " Occasion may be the bugle call that summons an army to battle ; but the blast of a bugle can never... | |
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If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. 
