He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You are victors, not victims!

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.