It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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.
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.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Only you can control your future.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
