If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
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!
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
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.
