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

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

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.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

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

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it’s contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.