If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. — Thomas Jefferson

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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. — Geena Davis

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Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. ― Meister Eckhart

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. — Oprah

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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

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No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

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The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

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