The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or
anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.