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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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.