When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

There is no medicine like hope.

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.

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.