If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Talk does not cook rice.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Some dream to escape reality, some to change it forever.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.

You call it procrastinating. I call it thinking.

What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

Less, but better.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

I never waste time so that I have more time to waste.

We used to have more faith in brains. It turns that you can be surprisingly stupid and still succeed, if you are determined enough.

I learn rocket science just like how you learn anything else: books and talking to people.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

There is never enough time to do what you don't really want to be doing.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

The palest ink is clearer than the fondest memory.

Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

If you just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't hold on for minute longer, never give up; for that's just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Learning is like rowing upstream: Not to advance is to drop back.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Amateurs practice until they get it right, but professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.

Close the gap between what you know you should do and what you’re actually doing, and you’ll find you’ve made a massive leap.

If you don’t want people to criticize you, don’t do anything new or interesting.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.

Discipline equals freedom. Everyone wants freedom. We want to be physically free and mentally free. We want to be financially free and we want more free time. But where does that freedom come from? How do we get it? The answer is the opposite of freedom. The answer is discipline. You want more free time?? Follow a more disciplined time-management system. You want financial freedom? Implement long-term financial discipline in your life. Do you want to be physically free to move how you want, and to be free from many health issues caused by poor lifestyle choices? Then you have to have the discipline to eat healthy food and consistently work out. We all want freedom. Discipline is the only way to get it.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

A healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.