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" If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. "

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" There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. "

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" Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. "

" No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it. "

" All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. "

" Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. "

" Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. "

" The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion. "

" There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. "

" 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. "

" Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down. "

" Be larger than your task. "

" Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? "

" We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. "

" One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. "

" All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. "

" No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. "

" Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden. "

" Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. "

" Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part. "

" Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal. "

" The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. "

" There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. "

" The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them. "

" The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. "

" When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. "

" Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. "

" Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. "

" If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism. "

" Power gravitates to the man who knows how. "

" No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. "