The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
The man who has done his best has done everything.
I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.