The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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.

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.