You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.