When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.