Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Well done is better than well said.