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

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

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Genius is eternal patience.

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.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

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

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.