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…

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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze...

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze...

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and...

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and...

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others...

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others...

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They...

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They...

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do...

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do...

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

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

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the...

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the...

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent...

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent...

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good...

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good...

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment,...

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment,...

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his...

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his...

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make...

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make...

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

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

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait...

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait...

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after...

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after...

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how...

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how...

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the...

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the...

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible...

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible...

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes...

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes...