We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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.

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.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

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

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

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.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

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

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

You can be happy where you are.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.