The Man Who Is Intent

The Young Man Who Addresses Himself In Stern Earnest To Organizing His Life-his Habits, His Associations, His Reading, His Study, His Work-stands Far More Chance Of Rising To A Position Affording Him Opportunity To Exercise His Organizing Abilities Than The Fellow Who Dawdles Along Without Chart Or Compass, Without Plan Or Purpose, Without Self-improvement And Self-discipline.

Is America Becoming Decadent? Do We No Longer Regard Our Promises And Pledges As Sacred? ... We Promised To Make Peace With Germany Only In Conjunction With The Allies; But We Brought Forward A Separate Peace, Demanding For Ourselves All The Advantages Of The Treaty Of Versailles But Rejecting All The Responsibilities Embodied In The Treaty. It Was America's President Who Induced Europe To Form A League Of Nations; And Then America Was The First Country That Refused To Joint It.... If These Are Not The Symptoms Of National Decadency, What Are They?

Success Is Sweetest To One Who Has Known Failure.

I Have Never Seen People Who Could Do Real Work Except Under The Stimulus Of Encouragement And Enthusiasm And The Approval Of The People For Whom They Are Working.

Don't Forget Until Too Late That The Business Of Life Is Not Business But Living.