Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

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.

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

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

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.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Now is the accepted time.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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.

Work is love made visible.