Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

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

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

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.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Either you run the day or the day runs you.