You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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.

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

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.