Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

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

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

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

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

Genius is eternal patience.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.