He who does not collect in summer, will heat little in winter.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.