To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Never mistake motion for action.

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

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I am a grafter.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

People want to feel hopeful.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Success is the child of audacity.

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

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

You are victors, not victims!

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

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

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.