It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

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

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

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.