People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.