Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

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.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.