It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Never confuse motion with action.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.