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

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

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

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

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