Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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.
The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs
You can't make souffle rise twice.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
What one has to do usually can be done.
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off