Echoes

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

I will either find a way, or make one.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

Through endurance we conquer.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Well done is better than well said.

I will either find a way or make one.