“Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.”–Lord
Stanley.

PROBABLY the greatest opportunity ever presented to those people who work for the money they get is before them just at this time. The opportunity to work and work properly performed are the chief pleasures of life.

No man in factory or field works harder than the baseball player or the football player. No man ever put more muscles into play in driving an ax into a log than are put into action by the golfer when he swings his driver.

Most pleasure is work–real work–and most work can be made a pleasure–real pleasure.

The truly industrious man or woman is seldom unhappy for “Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.”

Tired muscles produce healthful sleep whether those muscles were made tired with a baseball bat, a golf club, a hammer or a hoe.

The man who does not know how to work does not know how to play and there is no pleasure in life for such a man.

The first thing necessary to happiness and to ultimate independence is for each man to find his proper calling in life. “When you can do something better than anybody else, you are acquiring power; and if you can do this easily and pleasantly, this is your calling.”

One of the greatest men who died on the Lusitania was fond of quoting “Blessed is that man who has found his work.”

Most of us know that we cannot win a place in this world and hold it without performing our fair share of the world’s work. Work brings its rewards in the form of good health, happiness, prosperity and a competence for our later years.

The almshouses of the Country are filled with people who thought some one was going to take care of them and insisted that the world owed them a living. Perhaps it did, and they are getting it, but not the kind of a living that you and I want.

The rewards for the worker are greater today than they ever were before and the man who can do more work and produce more than the next man in line is going to win and win big.

Shorter hours and higher pay per hour are both coming to the man who can produce more in an hour. The world’s needs must be satisfied—your needs and mine–and every one must pro­duce his limit and urge his fellows to produce their limits to the end that we shall all have more money, more leisure and more happiness.

“The prosperity of any nation is in exact propor­tion to the quantity of labour which it spends in obtaining and employing means of life.”—John Ruskin.

Prosperity for the whole people is the result of confidence of all people in all people.

It was the great Bishop Home who said, “Pros­perity too often has the same effect upon its possessor that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner, who frequently, it is said, in these circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.” Present conditions indicate that some people have been playing the part of the Dutch mariner and, drunk with prosperity, have tied up the rudder and gone to sleep, forgetting that there may be others floating about on the sea of life without a rudder who might need assistance.

“To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.”–W. Austin.

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”–Johnson.

“No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you have.”–From the Latin

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