Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Fake it until you make it.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

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.