You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

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.

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.