An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The Internet is a big distraction.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

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.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

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.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Better never than late.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

We must use time creatively.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

This lady is not for turning.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

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