Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.