Too many men drift lazily into any job, suited or unsuited for them; and when they don't get along well they blame everybody and everything but themselves. Grouches are nearly always pinheads, small men who have never made any effort to improve their mental capacity.
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. Why do so many men never amount to anything? Because they don't think.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
What you are will show in what you do.
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