The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.