“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.

I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat,’ they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

I never want to feel like I’ve achieved my goal. It’s like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it’s a good season. They feel like they’ll be punished.

If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.