Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
No man fails who does his best.
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.
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.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.