Echoes

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Relentless toil conquers all.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

It seems to me that the simple acceptance of this fundamental fact of American life, this acknowledgment that the law of work is the fundamental law of our being, will help us to start aright in facing not a few of the problems that confront us from without and from within. As regards internal affairs, it should teach us the prime need of remembering that, after all has been said and done, the chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character—that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

They can, because they think they can.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

It is certain that habit eventually has such power over human nature that it becomes, as it were, a second nature, and forces it to practise that to which it has become accustomed, regardless of whether or not it is good for health.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.