Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

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

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Listen if you want to be heard

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

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

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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.