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“Every child should be taught to expect success”

“The world makes way for the man with an idea.”

“Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.”

“The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.”

“Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.”

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”

“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.”

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

“Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.”

“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”

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

“He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.”

“The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.”

“Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.”

“Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.”

“Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.”

“There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.”

“How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?”

“Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.”

“Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.”

“The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.”

“There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.”