Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The best way out is always through.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Americans never quit.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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

Exercise is labor without weariness.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.