When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

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

Pessimism never won any battle.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.