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

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

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.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

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

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

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.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

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.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Genius is patience.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

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.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

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.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.