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

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.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

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

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Fight with a happy heart.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I’m chasing perfection.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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

One today is worth two tomorrows.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Time is bunk.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

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

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.