Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.