I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Our work is never over.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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.

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

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

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

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

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘