It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

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.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.