So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Fortune befriends the bold.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

I always have to be writing.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.