Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

I always have to be writing.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

To lead people walk behind them.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

You are victors, not victims!

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Act, and God will act.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.