Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Percentages are why I am rich.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
