It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

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

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

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

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.