At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

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.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Well begun is half done.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

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

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.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

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.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

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.

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

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

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