The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett MardenThe sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.
Orison Swett MardenWe win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden