No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
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.
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
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.