There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
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....
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
