Pessimism Has Never Done Anything But Tear

To Many A Man, And Sometimes To A Youth, There Comes The Opportunity To Choose Between Honorable Competence And Tainted Wealth. The Young Man Who Starts Out To Be Poor And Honorable, Holds In His Hand One Of The Strongest Elements Of Success.

It Is Certain That The Greatest Poets, Orators, Statesmen, And Historians, Men Of The Most Brilliant And Imposing Talents, Have Labored As Hard, If Not Harder, Than Day Laborers; And That The Most Obvious Reason Why They Have Been Superior To Other Men Is That They Have Taken More Pains Than Other Men.

All Men Who Have Achieved Great Things Have Been Great Dreamers.

People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Have Not Been Content With Mediocrity. They Have Not Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others So Them, But Always A Little Better. They Always Pushed Things That Came To Their Hands A Little Higher Up, This Little Farther On, That Counts In The Quality Of Life's Work. It Is Constant Effort To Be First-class In Everything One Attempts That Conquers The Heights Of Excellence.

You Have Not Found Your Place Until All Your Faculties Are Roused, And Your Whole Nature Consents And Approves Of The Work You Are Doing.