Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
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.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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.'
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.