Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

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.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

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?

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Nature does nothing in vain.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

I don’t like to be bored.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Short cuts make long delays.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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.