I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

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

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

What keeps me going is goals.

I do believe in self-help.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

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

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

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

‚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 is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.