The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.