No one can succeed for you.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.