An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.