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

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

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

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

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.