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.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
Fake it until you make it.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
