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.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.