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

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Success is not a stop sign.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.