Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

The only way round is through.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Americans never quit.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

My son has died of AIDS.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

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.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

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.‘

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

God helps those who help themselves.

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.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

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.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.