The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

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.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Don’t ever play yourself.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Little things affect little minds.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

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.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.