Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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.