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.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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.

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

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

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

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.