Orison swett marden

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

No man fails who does his best.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

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...

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

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.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.