Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

I want to take initiative; I know my game and I know what I need to do to win.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

Find a way and make it happen: I've always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn't go around the rock, I'd find a way to go over it or under it or through it.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.