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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.