Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Reality is a sliding door.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.