The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

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

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Being humble matters.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Let go of yesterday.

Get mad, then get over it.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

I’m not the most patient of people.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.