You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.