Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure