Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.
Most of us do not prepare for a large career because we do not expect enough of ourselves.
Opportunity becomes invisible to those who are doing nothing, or looking somewhere else for it.
Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company – a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.