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

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

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Nothing will work unless you do.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.