No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about five percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.
Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win.
Success is dependent on effort.
