Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

 The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. 

The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.