Occupation: Author Birth: 1850 Death: 1924
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be mod….
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..
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us..
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities..
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed..
What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the….
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure.
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progres….
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upri….
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to yo….
We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her childr….
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 hav….
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances..
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way..
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!.
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men….
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly im….
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do..
How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green..….
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example ….
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, a….