Self Control

If you do not wish to undertake so ambitious a program of research, then study the people around YOU; those who have tried and those who are now trying to "feather their own nests" at the cost of others.

GREED and REVENGE stand at the crossroads of life, where they turn aside to failure and misery every person who would take the road that leads to success. It is a part of your business not to permit them to interfere with you when you approach one of these crossroads.

Both individuals and nations rapidly decline where GREED and ENVY ride in the minds of those who dominate. Take a look at Mexico and Spain if you wish to know what happens to the envious and the greedy. Most important of all, take a look at YOURSELF and make sure that these two deadly enemies are not riding in your brain! Turn your attention, now, to two more twins of destruction - EGOTISM and SUSPICION. Observe that they, also, ride side by side.

There is no hope of success for the person who suffers either from too much self-love or lack of confidence in others. Someone who likes to manipulate figures has estimated that the largest club in the world is the "IT CAN'T BE DONE CLUB."

It is claimed that there are approximately ninety-nine million members of this club in the United States of America alone. If you have no FAITH in other people you have not the seed of success in you. SUSPICION is a prolific germ. If permitted to get a start it rapidly multiplies itself until it leaves no room for FAITH.

Without faith no man may enjoy enduring success. Running, like a golden cord of illumination throughout the Bible, is the admonition to have FAITH. Before civilization lost itself in its mad rush for dollars men understood the power of FAITH.

"For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.