If I were a cobbler, it would be my pride
The best of all cobblers to be;
If I were a tinker, no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me.
—OLD SONG.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.—VICTOR HUGO.
Every man stamps his own value upon himself, and we are great or little
according to our own will.—SAMUEL SMILES.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth
of the power and will to succeed.—WHIPPLE.
As men in a crowd instinctively make room for one who would force his
way through it, so mankind makes way for one who rushes toward an
object beyond them.—DWIGHT.
There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that
term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys.—SETH
LOW.
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long,
And so make life, death and the vast forever one grand, sweet song.
—CHARLES KINGSLEY.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made of.—FRANKLIN.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be
born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and
happiness.—EMERSON.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no
time.—BACON.
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation;
and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or
fine.... Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion
more, and sends us home to add one stroke of faithful work.—EMERSON.
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