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.

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.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.