The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Genius is eternal patience.

Only you can control your future.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.