The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
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.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
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.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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!
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.