Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Only you can control your future.