Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time