Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The doer alone learneth.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

What is once well done is done forever.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

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

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I’m afraid to fail again.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.