You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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.

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.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Well done is better than well said.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

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.