When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Bring them on.

People want you to fail.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.