People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

People want to feel hopeful.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.