“The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.”

If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself – some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country’s life and I took it.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they’re getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.