Every mistake you make is progress.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the ability to see beyond current circumstances.

It is not the strongest or most intelligent who will survive, but those most adaptable to change.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

It is a lot easier to look like a successful person than to be one.

Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

A man who is not afraid of mistakes is one who is sure to succeed.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

When you stop growing, you stop succeeding.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.

Innovation is the key to success in business.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Your best bet is not to follow the crowd, but to learn from it.

The road to success is never straight.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The more I work, the luckier I get.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.

You must be willing to do what others won’t, to achieve what others don’t.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The first step to success is to get up early.

True success is not in the things you accumulate, but in the things you give away.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.

Spend your life on something that will outlast you.

Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world’s history by eight-hour-day men…. Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c’est pouvoir.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Wealth is spiritual, not material.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

To achieve success, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

A person who has not made a mistake has not learned anything.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

To make headway, improve your head.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Your best asset is your earning ability. Your best investment is in yourself.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Kill time and you will kill your career.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Plan your work – work your plan.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.