“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”
“Don't waste your time with explanations; people only hear what they want to hear.”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”