The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.