Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.