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.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

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

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.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

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.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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.

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