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.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

It is always your next move.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I do not raise brats!

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Competition is a sin.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

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

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Our work is never over.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.