Be larger than your task.

We lend power to the things we fear!

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

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.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.