Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
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 think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
