Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

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

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.