Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude