The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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...

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

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.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment