Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

There is no medicine like hope.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.