I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
All wealth is the product of labor.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.