Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.