Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
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.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
