What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.