When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

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.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Peace begins with a smile.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

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

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

God’s desire is that we excel.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.