Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

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.'

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

When things go wrong don't go with them

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.