The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
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.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Percentages are why I am rich.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
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.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.