“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“Well begun is half done.”

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

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

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”