Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.