I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Nothing will work unless you do.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country