No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Every child should be taught to expect success

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.