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

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.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

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

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.