I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

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.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

‚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.‘

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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