No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
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.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
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.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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.
