Without courage there cannot be truth; and without truth there can be no other virtue.—Walter Scott.
But no matter what has or has not been done for you up to the present time, you and I know that from now on your future welfare will be largely of your own making and in your own keeping. If you will thoughtfully plan your purpose as definitely as conditions will permit and then learn to stick to it through thick and thin, your success in life is quite well assured, and you need not fear that at the end of the journey you will have to say, as does many a man while retrospectively viewing his years:
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement—these are the martial virtues which must command success.—Phelps.
O’er life’s long and winding pathway,
Looking backward, I confess
I have not at looking forward
Been a genuine success.
What is there for you to do?
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.—Tolstoi.