You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.

Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.