Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.