Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Aim for the highest.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
A man is a god in ruins.
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.