The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Well done is better than well said.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.