I will not be triumphed over.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

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.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

If I can be a leader, I will.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I want the world to see my body.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.