Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

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

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

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.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

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

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.