Never mistake motion for action.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Never regret what you don’t write.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

Forget the past.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

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.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.