We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

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

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.