Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

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

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

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

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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

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

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.