In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

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

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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

America is just downright mean.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

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

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.