I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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...

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.