“Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.”

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

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.

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

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

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.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

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.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

When space travel becomes as common as air travel, the future of civilization will be assured.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.