Money, Influence, And Position Are Nothing Compared

The Universe Is One Great Kindergarten For Man. Everything That Exists Has Brought With It Its Own Peculiar Lesson.

You Must Bring Every Particle Of Your Energy, Unanswerable Resolution, Your Best Efforts, Your Persistent Industry To Your Task Or The Best Will Not Come Out Of You. You Must Back Up Your Ambition By Your Whole Nature, By Unbounded Enthusiasm And A Determination To Win Which Knows No Failure.

Analyzing What You Haven't Got As Well As What You Have Is A Necessary Ingredient Of A Career.

We Do Not Know What We Can Bear Until We Are Put To The Test. Many A Delicate Mother, Who Thought That She Could Not Survive The Death Of Her Children, Has Lived To Bury Her Husband And The Last One Of A Large Family, And In Addition To All This Has Seen Her Home And Last Dollar Swept Away; Yet She Has Had The Courage To Bear It All And To Go On As Before. When The Need Comes, There Is A Power Deep Within Us That Answers The Call.

Every Thought Which Enters The Mind, Every Word We Utter, Every Deed We Perform, Makes Its Impression Upon The Inmost Fiber Of Our Being And The Result Of These Impressions Is Our Character. The Study Of Books, Of Music, Or Of The Fine Arts Is Not Essential To A Lofty Character. It Rests With The Worker Whether A Rude Piece Of Marble Shall Be Squared Into A Horse-block Or Carved Into An Apollo, A Psyche, Or A Venus Di Milo. It Is Yours, If You Choose, To Develop A Spiritual Form More Beautiful Than Any Of These, Instinct With Immortal Life, Refulgent With All The Glory Of Character.