Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.