Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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.

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

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.