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

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

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.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.