“Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow.”

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. When you grow, everything in your life grows with you.

Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.

Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It’s intoxicating.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.