Echoes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

They can, because they think they can.

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

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

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

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Well done is better than well said.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

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