How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

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 best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

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 think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.