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“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)”

“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.”

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

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

“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.”

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

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