Lack of industry is an attitude.

Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

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

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.