There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Small aim is a crime.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.