If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit rock bottom.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

The perfect amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they would do nothing.

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just [...]

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is.

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.