A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

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

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.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.