Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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.'

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.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.