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

If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Genius is eternal patience.

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.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.