You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.