Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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

Listen if you want to be heard

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.