“Let work itself be the ambition.”

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don’t run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.

These elections won’t be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

It’ easy to find information on Google guru but that’s not equal to gaining knowledge.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Ambition is when you close the gap between your circumstances and expectations.

What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.