We will not be _dragged down by our associates_.

Until we meet the right kind we will hold aloof, and we will not be morose and gloomy because it happens that at this moment our acquaintanceship does not include these successes.

When we have succeeded in doing something big they will come to us and _if we think big things we are likely to do them_.

It is all a matter of the will to do.
"Nothing succeeds like success," said some very wise man and if there ever was a phrase that rang with truth this does.

It means that the _thought of success_, the courage that _comes with success_, leads to _more and more success_.