"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the faint-hearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was 1,000 miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred...Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it."

"Give your workers more sophisticated jobs along with better tools, and you'll discover your employees will become more responsible and bring more intelligence to their work."

"It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world (that) the humblest man has not the faculties to surmount."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"You will find at the base of and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthiness of his endeavors."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results."

"One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have -- we just need to learn to tap into and trust it."

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' "

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."