Success Consists Of Being And Doing, Not

First Make Sure That What You Aspire To Accomplish Is Worth Accomplishing, And Then Throw Your Whole Vitality Into It. What's Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well. And To Do Anything Well, Wheter It Be Typing A Letter Or Drawing Up An Agreement Involving Millions, We Must Give Not Only Our Hands To The Doing Of It, But Our Brains, Our Enthusiasm, The Best - All That Is In Us. The Task To Which You Dedicate Yourself Can Never Become A Drudgery.

It Is When Things Go Hardest, When Life Becomes Most Trying, That There Is The Greatest Need For Having A Fixed Goal, For Having An Air Castle That The Outside World Cannot Wreck. When Few Comforts Come From Without, It Is All The More Necessary To Have A Fount To Draw From Within. And The Man Or Woman Who Has A Star Toward Which To Press Cannot Be Thrown Off The Course, No Matter How The World May Try, No Matter How Far Things Seem To Be Wrong.

Timing Is Everything. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How Far He Is Likely To Go In The World. The Popular Notion Is That A Youth's Progress Depends Upon How He Acts During His Working Hours. It Doesn't. It Depends Far More Upon How He Utilizes His Leisure...if He Spends It In Harmless Idleness, He Is Likely To Be Kept On The Payroll, But That Will Be About All. If He Diligently Utilizes His Own Time...to Fit Himself For More Responsible Duties, Then The Greater Responsibilities - And Greater Rewards - Are Almost Certain To Come To Him.

The Man Who Works 52 Weeks In The Year Does Not Do His Best In Any One Week Of The Year, Daniel Guggenheim, Onetime Head Of The Greatest Smelting And Mining Family In America, Impressed Upon Me. Real Recreation Quickens Aspiration. The True Purpose Of Recreation Is Not Merely To Amuse, Not Merely To Afford Pleasure, Not Merely To Kill Time, But To Increase Our Fitness, Enhance Our Usefulness, Spur Achievement.

Opportunity Rarely Knocks On Your Door. Knock Rather On Opportunity's Door If You Ardently Wish To Enter.