The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

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.

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.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.