Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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.

Forget the past.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The older you get, the better you get.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

They know enough who know how to learn.