I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.

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

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

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

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.