You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

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

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