Echoes

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Well done is better than well said.

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

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.

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.

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

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

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

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

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

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.