“An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.”

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Perfection comes from the disinterested performance of an action on a continuous basis.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.

Bitcoin has been performing ~230% a year for a decade.