Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Life is a song to me.

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.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Success is not a stop sign.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

One man with courage is a majority.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

There is no substitute for victory.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

The way to know life is to love many things.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.