No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.