 Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. |
| All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. |
| Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. |
| The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. |
| Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. |
| Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. |
| No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. |
| No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. |
| Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. |
| The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. |
| Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. |
| When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. |
| No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. |
| The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. |
| Don't wait. The time will never be just right. |
| Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. |
| Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. |
| Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. |
| A goal is a dream with a deadline. |
| We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. |
