Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Please all, and you will please none.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.