Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

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

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

When things go wrong don't go with them

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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