格言:每个人都是他自己命运的设计者和建筑师。 我不靠天赐的运气活着,但**策划运气发达。 等待运气的时候,要知道如何引导运气;设计运气,就是设计人生。 (He who marches in rank and file has already eared my contempt.He has been given a large brain by mistake,since for him the spinal cord would suffice.) January 20,1900
格言:我们劳苦的最高报酬,不在于我们所获得的,而在于我们会因此成为什么。 如果你视工作为一种乐趣,人生就是天堂;如果你视工作为一种义务,人生就是地狱。 (With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope。) November 9,1897
格言:机会是靠机会得来的。 坏习惯能摆布我们,左右成败。它很容易养成,但却很难伺候。 成功地将一个好主意付诸实践,比在家空想出一千个好主意要有价值得多。 (To conquer you have need to do,to do again,ever to do!And your safety is insured。) December 24,1897
格言:我不迎接战争,我摧毁竞争者。 即使输了,唯一该做的就是光明磊落的去输。 拐杖不能取代强健有力的双脚,我们要靠自己的双脚站起来。 (These is no retreat but in submission and savvy! Our chains are forged! The war is inevitable,and let it come) February 19,1901
格言:借钱是为了创造好运。 不论是要赢得财富,还是要赢得人生,优秀的人在竞技中想的不是输了我会怎样,而是要成为胜利者我应该做什么。 (We are continually faced by greater opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems) April 18,1899
格言:只要不变成习惯,失败是件好事。 你利用了机会,就是在剥夺别人的机会,保证自己。 一旦避免失败变成你做事的动机,你就走上了怠惰无力的路。 (An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.) November 19, 1899
格言:世界上没有一样东西可取代毅力。 除非你放弃,否则你就不会被打垮。 有太多的人高估他们所欠缺的,却又低估了他们所拥有的。 (Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.) February12,1909
格言:信心的大小决定了成就的大小。 只要相信我们能够成功,我们就会赢得成功。 不相信失败是成功之母,我相信信心是成功之父。 (The force which have lighted my way,and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,have been confidence.) June 7,1903
格言:我可以欺骗敌人,但决不欺骗自己。 要求我以诚相待的人,是想在我这里捞到好处。 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。 (Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,but thechalice of opportunity.) November29,1899