The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.