There is no luck except where there is discipline.

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

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Action expresses priorities.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

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

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

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

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.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

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.