Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
Kill time and you will kill your career.
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
Plan your work – work your plan.
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.