How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

You are victors, not victims!

I’m a can-do girl.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.