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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“Work is the best antidote to sorrow.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.”
“I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself.”
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
“In all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
“Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.”
“I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”