It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to
it, if you throw your read more

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to
it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It read more

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated
from right living.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated
from right living.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure read more

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring
all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a
faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping
and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.