Charles Bukowski Quotes

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

If it doesn't seem possible, nothing much gets done.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

I always knew that there were huge opportunities for me, and that I had a lot of potential to do a lot of different things, but I also knew it was about my execution and my application of skills.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

The more we do, the more we can do.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

You never know what you can do till you try.

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

I think I was given an opportunity, and I ran with it. I think I've made a lot more of it than anybody thought I was going to, and that's why it's gone so well, but it's opened a lot of doors and a lot of eyes to what I can do.

I'll do everything I can to reach my potential.

I had everything to gain by giving it everything I could.