While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

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

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

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

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

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

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

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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.

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