No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

God’s desire is that we excel.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.