The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.