I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
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.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
When things go wrong don't go with them
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
