Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.
Go forth and set the world on fire.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Do small things, with great love.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Always do whatever’s next.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
Work for a better life as if you’ll live forever, and work for a better end as if you’ll die tomorrow.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.