I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Knowledge is power.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

A man’s character is his fate.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

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

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.