If you want to succeed...

If you want to succeed in the world,

You must make your own opportunities

as you go on.

The man who waits for some seventh wave

To toss him on dry land

Will find that

The seventh wave is a long time a coming.

You can commit no greater folly

Than to sit by the roadside

Until some one comes along

And invites you to ride with him

To wealth or influence.

John B. Gough