Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.