Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

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

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.