Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Big results require big ambitions.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Small aim is a crime.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.