Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Only you can control your future.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Our work is never over.

Nothing endures but change.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.