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.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.