It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one’s happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can’t help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.
People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn’t hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day.
No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all – time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day’s greatest gift and your greatest job.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
It’s what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others.
People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.
Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It’s the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It’s today that is the paramount problem always.
Keep your Chin up. People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the Stars are set.