No one can keep you down but yourself

Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.