Great ideas are useless without action.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.