Be active and earnest and plucky;
Then your work will come out just about as you plan
And the world will exclaim, “Oh, how lucky!”
They also serve who only stand and wait.—Milton.
In studying the history of the lives of successful men we are constantly being impressed with the thought that they make the most out of their surroundings, whatever their surroundings may be. They do not wait for a good chance to succeed; they take such chances as they can get and make them good. We very soon learn that
Two things fill me with awe: the starry heavens above, and the moral sense within.—Kant.
The ones who shall win are the ones who will toil;
The future is all in our keeping;
Though fortune may give us the seed and the soil,