The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

You can’t go backward in life.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I’ve learned never to say never.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I have goals.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.