Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

When things go wrong don't go with them

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

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.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.