"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

"To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unbroken by emotions."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"We begin to lose our hesitation to do immoral things when we lose our hesitation to speak of them."

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing."