That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

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

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Find people who will make you better.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Dream and you shall become.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

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

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I love a natural look in pictures.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.