Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Character is destiny.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Competition is a sin.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I’ve learned never to say never.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.