“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is inspiring others to move beyond it.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.