I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
