If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
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.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
To those whom much is given, much is expected.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
