Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I love women with attitude.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

People want to feel hopeful.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

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

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

My fat never made me less money.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.