If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.