Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.