It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

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

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.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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

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

Only you can control your future.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.