If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

In art the best is good enough.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

To lead people walk behind them.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

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

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I think that success is having fun.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.