Yet, while “ifs” cannot help a mite,
We’d all be less contented
And life would hold far less delight
“If” “iffing” were prevented.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.—Babcock.
When the time arrives for a boy to cease dreaming and to begin doing he should seize upon the highest duty that comes to his hands and waste not a moment in dilatory uncertainties. “Thrift of time,” says Gladstone, “will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.”
Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.—Irving.
Hopes are good, but patiently worked-out realities are better. Hope is for to-morrow. Work is for to-day. The hope that lulls one into a dreamy inactivity, with the promise that all will be well, whether or no, is sometimes a hindrance in the path toward success. We must not succumb too fully to
THE POWER OF HOPE
Hope is the real riches, as fear is the real poverty.—Hume.