I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.