It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.