The ability to work hard is, perhaps, the most valuable aid to success.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
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.
The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
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.
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.
