Action is the foundational key to all success.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

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

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

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.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.