For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.