Great Throughts Treasury

"Know what work you want to do and go after it. The young man who gets ahead must decide for himself what he wishes to do. From his own tastes, his own enthusiasm, how he must get the motive and the inspiration which are to start him on his way to a successful life."

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady action. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, - preserving in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun ray's do not burn until brought to a focus."

"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."