Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

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.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.