If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.