Mental Nougat

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.


I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. 


If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

What you are will show in what you do.  

Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work...

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value....