The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Things do not change; we change.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I will not be triumphed over.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.