self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures
...rld see them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong. ¡°Eternal vigilance,¡± it has been said, ¡°is the price of liberty.¡± With equal truth it may be said, ¡°Unceasing effort is the price of success.¡± If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and indispensable help to success is character. Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and ...