Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building / steadily building.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.