Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
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.
He who thinks little errs much
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
Well done is better than well said.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
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.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.