Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.