Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.