Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

There is no medicine like hope.

Every child should be taught to expect 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 do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?