Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.