A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

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.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

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 don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.