Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them
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
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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.
