There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
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 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.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.
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.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
Only you can control your future.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'