The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. |
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. |
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. |
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. |
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. |
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. |
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. |
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. |
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. |
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. |
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. |
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. |
No man fails who does his best. |
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. |
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. |
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. |
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. |
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. |
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. |