I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
If youre in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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....
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
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.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.