The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.