“We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.”

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.