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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.