It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

People want you to fail.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

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

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

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

War is the province of danger.

Let my enemies devour each other.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.