When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.