Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.