Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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!

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.