Only you can control your future.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Listen if you want to be heard

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.