If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Listen if you want to be heard
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
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.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.