The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

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.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Please all, and you will please none.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.