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

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

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.

Only you can control your future.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

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.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

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

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

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.