If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
He who thinks little errs much
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching 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 A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
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 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.
Fake it until you make it.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
