Our Thoughts Are Like Roots Which Reach

You Will Never Succeed While Smarting Under The Drudgery Of Your Occupation, If You Are Constantly Haunted With The Idea That You Could Succeed Better In Something Else.

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.

Every Experience In Life, Everything With Which We Have Come In Contact In Life, Is A Chisel Which Has Been Cutting Away At Our Life Statue, Molding, Modifying, Shaping It. We Are Part Of All We Have Met. Everything We Have Seen, Heard, Felt Or Thought Has Had Its Hand In Molding Us, Shaping Us.

Anybody Can Work When Everything Goes Smoothly, When There Is Nothing To Trouble Him; But A Man Must Be Made Of The Right Kind Of Stuff Who Can Rise Above The Things Which Harass And Handicap The Weak, And Do His Work In Spite Of Them. Indeed, This Is The Test Of Greatness.

How Can I Develop Myself Into The Grandest Possible Manhood?