Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

This lady is not for turning.

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.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

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.‘

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

I will not be triumphed over.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.