A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

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

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.