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.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

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

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.