The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.