The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Genius is eternal patience.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

Nothing will work unless you do.