It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.