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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Please all, and you will please none.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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

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

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.