Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

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

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

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.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

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

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

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

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

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.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

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.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.