Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

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

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.