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.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.