I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Success is not a stop sign.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

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.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.