But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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 term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
