The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

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.

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.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.