Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

When things go wrong don't go with them

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

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

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