Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

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.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

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.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

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.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

To lead people walk behind them.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.