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!

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

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.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

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.

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

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

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

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