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.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

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.