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

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

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.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s 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.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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 could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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.

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

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

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.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

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

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.