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.

The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Percentages are why I am rich.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

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

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

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.