My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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 think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

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

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.