Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Begin where you are and what you are.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.