Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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.
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
You can't make souffle rise twice.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
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.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
