If any man fancies that there is some easier way of gaining a dollar than by squarely earning it, he lost his clue to his way through this mortal labyrinth and must henceforth wander as chance may dictate-said by an editor of a leading newspaper.

No one except him is the designer of his fortune. Most people do not give it a thought to this. Instead, they idle away their lives waiting for luck, fate, opportunity, a helping hand from government or others to do their boosting for them. They do not know that their “luck, fate, opportunity or help” is right within them all the time.

“Your best opening is in yourself”, said Marden. As long as you think it is somewhere else, or in somebody else, you will be a failure”. As long as you lean on others, as long as you think there is something coming to you from some dead uncle or some rich man’s will as long as you think your success is in the money you father will probably leave you, you will be a failure. Your opportunity in your self, wrapped up in your own personality.

The biggest lesson one learns from successful individuals is self-reliance. Although we are free and independent, most of us choose to be learners and depend on others.

Many promising young men and women are being denied the rich prizes of life because they have not learned to stand on their own feet. Man is limitless. It is we impose all restrictions to ourselves. It’s a known fact that man can achieve any thing if he believes in himself.

As we develop a keen sense of self-reliance and do the things ourselves which ought to be accomplished by ourselves, we develop the power necessary to reach higher and higher. to facilitate us in the development of self-reliance it is well to constantly hold the mental thought of our being, that we are created for a life’s purpose which we alone can perform .whether the journey is upon the sea of life be calm or stormy, we are the captains of our ship and masters of our individual destinies.