Booker T. Washington

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

“Success in life is knowing the difference between ham and eggs; the chicken’s involved, the pig is committed.”

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.