Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Everybody has a purpose.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.