I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

― Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

I’m tired of working for somebody else.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the age of 15

If a fellow’s got guts he can always win.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

— Henry Ford

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

― John D. Rockefeller

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

― John D. Rockefeller

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

― Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

― Andrew Carnegie

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Weep and you weep alone.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

— C.G. Jung

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

― Sigmund Freud

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

— Viktor Frankl

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

— Viktor E. Frankl

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

— C.G. Jung

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

― Sigmund Freud

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

― Sigmund Freud

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

— Viktor E. Frankl

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

— Marcus Aurelius