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

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

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

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.