The sieve never sifts flour by itself.

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

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

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

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.