“Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.”

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.