We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Well done is better than well said.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Never complain and never explain.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Let the path be open to talent.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.