If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

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

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

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

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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 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.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

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

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

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

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Losing is tough.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.