Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves
When things go wrong don't go with them
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Great companies are built on great products.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.