Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

To create something you must be something.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

To lead people walk behind them.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

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

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.