If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Networking is more about ‘farming’ than it is about ‘hunting’. It’s about cultivating relationships.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.