Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.
Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.
If you are willing, great things are possible to you.
By the time you learn the rules of life, you’re too old to play the game.
The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
Better untaught than ill-taught.
It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
A rumor is like a check – never endorse it till you’re sure it’s genuine.
Actions are destiny’s pen.
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.
Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.
Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.
Death is God’s way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.