Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
