Are the will to work and the desire to succeed being discouraged in our country today? To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definite goal is essential.

The goal must be definite and specific. To a goal must be added enthusiasm, persistence and hard work.

People shouldn’t allow their difficulties to get them down. They shouldn’t believe anyone who says they cannot succeed.

Work and more work are important in achieving goals.

Many older people look back on their years spent wondering how they would meet the expenses of raising a family and coping with problems and illnesses. Those were the most developmental, the most rewarding, the most wonderful years of life — if only we could have recognized it then.

People should have welcomed problems. It made their lives meaningful.

Those experiences gave them confidence. It helped ensure that their later years would be years of serenity.

People should welcome problems, reach out for them, charge into them, and immediately convert them in their mind to challenges. The negative way to look at a problem is to think of it as a problem.

The highest form of success is the person who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil.

No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity that comes from thrift, from business energy and enterprise, and from fields of industrial activity. But neither was any nation ever truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone.

Our debt is owed to great people like Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. They recognized the law of work, the law of strife. They toiled to win a competence for themselves and for those dependent on them.

Can our country succeed in the future if people are discouraged from doing hard work? Are they being encouraged to look to the government to take care of them?