Your destiny isn’t a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice. It’s not something you wait for, but rather something you pursue. Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Opportunities sometimes come disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Start where you are. You’re at this moment standing right in the middle …

Knowledge controls access to opportunity and advancement. There is no knowledge that is not power. Power is the byproduct of understanding. Educate yourself and you build the power to accomplish your goals. Power gravitates to the one that knows how to do something. As a general rule, the most successful people in life are the one’s with the best information. …

All progress begins one step at a time. There is no sudden lead to greatness. Good work, done little by little becomes great work. The house of success is built brick by brick.