He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

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.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

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

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

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

I will never retire unless I have to.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.