Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.