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

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

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.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.