There is no open door to the Temple of Success.  Every man who enters forges his own key and cannot effect an entrance for anyone else.  Not even his own children can pass this door.  Remember that the key that will unlock your greatest opportunities must be forged by yourself.  No outside Power, no help from friends or relations can do as much for you as you can do for yourself.

  It’s doing your job the best you can
  And being just to your fellowman;
  It’s making money, but holding friends,
  And staying true to your aims and ends;
  It’s figuring how and learning why,
  And looking forward and thinking high,
  And dreaming a little and doing much;
  It’s always keeping in closest touch,
  With what is finest in word and deed;
  It’s being thorough, yet making speed;
  It’s struggling on with a will to win,
  But taking loss with a cheerful grin;
  It’s sharing sorrow and work and mirth
  And making better this good old earth;
  It’s serving, striving through strain and stress,
  It’s doing your noblest—­that’s Success.

Six Suggestions for Success

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievement of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times, and to have a smile for every living creature you meet.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you will have no time to criticize others.

To be too big for worry, too noble for anger and too strong for fear.

To think well of your self and to proclaim this fact to the world—­not in loud words, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

The world knows but little of failures, and cares less.  The world only watches the successes.

Stop worrying over things that can’t be helped and go and do things that can be done.

Few people care a continental for your failure.  Few, if any, will help.

You may sit and magnify your mistakes, mourn and go mad over your blunders, but men will only smile that cynical smile and say of you, “He’s no good.”

Self-pity, sympathy soliciting, wishing and wailing will only let you down lower.  Brace up.  Brush up.  Think up.  And you will get up.  Think down.  Look down.  Act down.  And you will stay down.

Paint your face with a smile.  Advertise that you are a success.  Then think and work for it.

Whatever you think you are is the price they will pay.

In every contest of life, remember the shell must fit the gun.

It Couldn’t Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. 
So he buckled right in, with a trace of a grin
On his face.  If he worried he hid it. 
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done—­and he did it.