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

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

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

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.