Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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....

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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