Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

To lead people walk behind them.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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

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

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I always make my dreams into goals.

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

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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

Bring them on.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.