The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Passions are the gales of life.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Life loves the liver of it.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.