There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

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.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

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.