You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
To think you can creates the force that can.
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more – to be happy and successful – than much money.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.