Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
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.
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.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.