Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it