Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

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

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

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If you deserve it, go get it.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Genius, when young, is divine.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.