The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

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.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

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

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

We must use time creatively.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

I don’t do meetings.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.