The slum is the measure of civilization.
—Jacob Riis
Topics: Civilization
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
—Jacob Riis
Topics: Determination
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
—Jacob Riis
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Optimism
Some defeats are only installments to victory.
—Jacob Riis
Topics: Failure
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
—Jacob Riis
Topics: Determination, Endurance, Persistence, One Step at a Time, Resolve, Usefullness, Perseverance
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