It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little t….

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent ….

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power..

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling..

Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the resu….

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker..

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place..

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of li….

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves..

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore th….

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns..

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….

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career..

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conqu….

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from eas….

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment..

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life,….

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake..

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul..

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us..