Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The world is sad enough without your woe.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

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

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

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.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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.

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.

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.

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.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

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

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day...

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

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.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Be larger than your task.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.