In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
To make headway, improve your head.
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.