You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

In contrast, you can’t achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

It is impossible to succeed without failing.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something — and you can’t. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world — not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.

Well...you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way — especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.