We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

People want you to fail.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

This lady is not for turning.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

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

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Giving up cannot be an option.

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

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

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

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.