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

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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

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.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

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.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

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

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

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.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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.

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

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

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

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Good luck has its storms.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

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.

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.