DON’T PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO EXTERNALS.

Be self-sufficient.

Quit thinking about Luck, and Pull, and Influence, and

Circumstances, and Other People.

This whole problem of success is bound up in you

alone. You are going to sink or swim according to the kind of

spirit in you.

The one big, important and essential factor in your life

is — You.

Keep your courage up and no man can daunt you. Keep

your body healthy and disease germs will not harm you.

Keep your conscience clean and you will need be

ashamed to look no man in the face.

Always bear in mind that your ultimate triumph depends

upon your grit, your discipline, your industry, your skill,

and upon nothing and nobody outside of you.

Don’t pin your hopes on others helping you.

If you get boosts and favor, be thankful and go on.

If you get no help — go on just the same.

It’s a queer world. Everybody will help the self-sufficient

man and knock the beggar.

If you want to borrow a hundred dollars, act as if you

had a million. Everybody will come

running to lend you.

But act as if you really needed twenty-five cents, and

we all turn the cold shoulder.

“To him that hath shall be given.”

There’s just one person who is going to make you or

undo you, and that is — You.