The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
When it comes to betting on yourself … you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.
Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful kindly things for others.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
When it comes to betting on yourself … you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.