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

Begin where you are and what you are.

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.

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.

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.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

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.