“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.”
“the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”
“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”
“There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit”