At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

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

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.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

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.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Genius is patience.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

You either make dust or eat dust.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

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

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

My mother did not like children.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

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.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.