“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.”

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

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.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

Happiness looks good on me, but the pain is so comfortable.