To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
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.
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.
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.
What one has to do usually can be done.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.