Before all else, be armed.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

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.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

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.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I’m not a bad person.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Success has always been a great liar.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.