“My own criterion of success is the ability to work joyfully and to live positively.”

“Quality leadership necessitates the ability to positively influence others within the organization to achieve success and common goals.”

“How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.”

“When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.”

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.”

“Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.”

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

“To the working men of Dundee…I press upon them the absolute necessity, as the very foundation of success in life, that they shall assume an erect position; that they shall respect their own manhood; and they will soon compel all other people to respect them”