But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

To create something you must be something.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

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.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

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

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

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.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

If you deserve it, go get it.

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

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I am a tough guy.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

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

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.