The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Please all, and you will please none.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.