A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.