Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Vision is not enough – it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

You are what you think about all day long.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

See yourself as a work in progress.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.