Little strokes, fell great oaks.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.