Bragging often precedes begging.
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
To make headway, improve your head.
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.
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.
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
Kill time and you will kill your career.
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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