The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

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

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

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

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.