At one point he decided enough was enough.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Solutions are not the answer.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

What keeps me going is goals.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

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.

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

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

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.