People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Action expresses priorities.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

As for our majority… one is enough.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Never confuse motion with action.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Working out anchors my day.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Well begun is half done.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Friends are thieves of time.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I always have to be writing.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Lost time is never found again.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.