“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.”

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath so what does that make today worth?

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.