Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.