There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

We lend power to the things we fear!

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.