There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
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.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
