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

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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!

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

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

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

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Well done is better than well said.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.