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. |
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels. |
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. |
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. |
No man fails who does his best. |
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. |
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. |
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. |
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. |
Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. |
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. |
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. |
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as o |
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. |
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. |