Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

To make headway, improve your head.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

You may delay, but time will not.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Lost time is never found again.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

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

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I got my buzz from playing.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.