“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

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

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

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

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.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying not waiting to deliver your lines.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.