If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

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

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

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

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 majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Listen if you want to be heard

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.