Ronald Reagan Quotes

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

In order to be something, you must do something.

I work every day to improve and reach my top.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Reading is good, action is better.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.