The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.