Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
What one has to do usually can be done.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
