I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

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.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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

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.

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

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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

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

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

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

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

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.