I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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

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!

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

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

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

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 in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.