but to everyone. In this way the grandest thoughts come to us, to
use or abuse. So search not in treasured volumes for noble
thoughts, but within, and bright and glowing vision will come to
be realized now and hereafter.


You must give some hours to concentrated, consistent, persistent
thought. You must study yourself and your weaknesses.

No man gets over a fence by wishing himself on the other side. He
must climb.

No man gets out of the rut of dull, tiresome, monotonous life by
merely wishing himself out of the rut. He must climb.

If you are standing still, or going backward, there is something
wrong. You are the man to find out what is wrong.

Don't think that you are neglected, or not understood, or not
appreciated.

Such thoughts are the thoughts of failure.

Think hard about the fact that men who have got what you envy got
it by working for it.

Don't pity yourself, criticise yourself.

You know that the only thing in the world that you have got to
count upon is yourself.