“We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
“We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.”
“This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?”
“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
“It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”
“Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.”
“Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”
“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”
“No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.”
“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
“There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.”
“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?”
“The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.”
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
“The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.”
“We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.”
“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.”
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”
“Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...”
“There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...”
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”
“What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.”
“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.”
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
“Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.”
“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”