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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

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

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

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.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.