A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Well done is better than well said.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.