We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.''

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

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.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...