I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.