Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
What you are will show in what you do.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
