Endurance is patience concentrated.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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

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 we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

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.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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 hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

You either make dust or eat dust.