Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel SmilesEnergy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
Samuel SmilesAll life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
Samuel Smiles