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" What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? "

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" The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. "

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" It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity. "

" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

" What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. "

" Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living. "

" Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness. "

" The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. "

" The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall. "

" No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. "

" If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser. "

" We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. "

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

" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "

" History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. "

" When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. "

" There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. "

" No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. "

" We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. "

" 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. "

" One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred. "

" There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. "

" Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough. "

" What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder. "

" A good system shortens the road to the goal. "

" Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. "

" Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. "

" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "