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.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

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.

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.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

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.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

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.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The best way out is always through.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

People want you to fail.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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

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

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I worked my face off.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

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’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.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.