You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

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

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I’m not very articulate.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

I’m about being the best.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.