He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Choose people who lift you up.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Every summer’s mine.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

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.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.