A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

People want to feel hopeful.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

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.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The post of honour is a private station.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

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.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

He who is contented is rich.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.