Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

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

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.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

We lift ourselves by our thought.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.