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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Action expresses priorities.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I have goals.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

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 get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

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

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.