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.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Man, all lives matter.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

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.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

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

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.