Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement..

Be larger than your task..

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding,….

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel..

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame..

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to tu….

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on….

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them..

We lift ourselves by our thought..

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy….

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the….

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his car….

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as ….

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herse….

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 f….

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere..

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them..

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us..

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally….

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who sta….

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..