I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I like to work.

I’m a can-do girl.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

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

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Before all else, be armed.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.