And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

No pressure, no diamonds.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Courage is grace under pressure.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

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

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Information is not knowledge.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.