If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

My drive is other people’s success.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

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

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

You fail only if you stop writing.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

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.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.