The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

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.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

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

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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