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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Only you can control your future.

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

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

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

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment

You can't make souffle rise twice.