We are so constituted that every departure from the right, from principle, causes loss of self-respect, and makes us unhappy.
Every time we obey the inward law of doing right we hear an inward approval, the amen of the soul, and every time we disobey it, a protest or condemnation.
There is everything in holding a high ideal of your work, for whatever model the mind holds, the life copies.

Whatever your vocation, let quality be your life-slogan.
A famous artist said he would never allow himself to look at an inferior drawing or painting, to do anything that was low or demoralizing, lest familiarity with it should taint his own ideal and thus be communicated to his brush.
Many excuse poor, slipshod work on the plea of lack of time.

But in the ordinary situations of life there is plenty of time to do everything as it ought to be done.
There is an indescribable superiority added to the character and fiber of the man who always and everywhere puts quality into his work.

There is a sense of wholeness, of satisfaction, of happiness, in his life which is never felt by the man who does not do his level best every time.

He is not haunted by the ghosts or tail ends of half-finished tasks, of skipped problems; is not kept awake by a troubled conscience.
When we are trying with all our might to do our level best, our whole nature improves.