We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

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.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

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

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

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.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Example is leadership.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.