I have goals.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

No driver is perfect.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Forget the past.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Being humble matters.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.