Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

The time is always right to do what is right.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

My life is my argument.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.