The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

Plan your work - work your plan

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.