For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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 means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

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.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.