Echoes

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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

Relentless toil conquers all.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

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

They can, because they think they can.

I will either find a way, or make one.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Well done is better than well said.

He who endures, conquers.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.