Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Be larger than your task.

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

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

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.