The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

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