If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
They alone live, who live for others.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
All wealth is the product of labor.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
The best way out is always through.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.