Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

When one door closes another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

When one door closes another door opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.