The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic