Occupation: Author Birth: 1850 Death: 1924
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small..
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of m….
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities..
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes..
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what ….
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise ….
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements..
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience..
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work..
We lend power to the things we fear!.
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up..
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of….
A good system shortens the road to the goal..
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principle….
To think you can creates the force that can..
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. Peop….
Character: the grandest thing in the world..
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being..
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of con….
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't..