There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. 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. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.