Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.
Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.
If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
Loud threats often indicate deep fears.
You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.
It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.
The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
Today’s worries may become tomorrow’s priceless experiences.
Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.
It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don’t think so, try getting along without him for a while.
When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.