Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.