He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.