A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

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.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

I will never retire unless I have to.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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

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.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

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

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

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.