A little book of inspiration, posted to a blog
IF
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you’d like to win but think you can’t,
It’s certain that you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost,
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in the state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the strongest and fastest man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
-Psalm 51:10.
Make yourself worthy of great and honorable success by right thinking, lofty aspiration, and energetic action. Realize that you have unlimited unused resources at your ready command. Make every day contribute in a definite way to your highest progress. Today is the day to do your best work, to achieve all of which you are now capable, and to aspire to still greater things.
I will study and prepare myself, and then some day my chance will come.
-Abraham Lincoln.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
-II Timothy 2:15.
THEY NEVER FAIL-.
Who keep faith with themselves.
Who always give their very best.
Who rise to the attack after falling.
Who maintain their own sense of self-respect.
Who return good wiil to the world about them.
Who keep their faith in truth and right unsullied.
Who learn to laugh at difficulties.
-Onward.
Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, dig ditches or edit a paper, ring an auction bell or write funny things – you must work. If you look around, you will see that the men who are the most able are the men who work the hardest. Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it’s because they quit work at six P.M. It’s the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them; it simply speaks of them as old So-and-So’s boy. Nobody likes them; the great busy world doesn’t know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make dust in the world. The busier you are the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied the world will be with you.
-Exchange.
