One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
