Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Percentages are why I am rich.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.