There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

What you don't know will hurt you.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.