Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

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.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.