You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

To feel valued, to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well, is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

You know we're all going in the same direction or at least trying to. So we need to live together get along together and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

To be somebody you must last.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality - a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which...

I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.

Great attitude makes your character and sets your path.

The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..