Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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.

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.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

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.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

I’m not really book-smart.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.