Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

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.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I have goals.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Competition is a sin.

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

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I always make my dreams into goals.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.