I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

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

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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I worked my face off.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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 not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Well begun is half done.

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.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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 you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

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

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

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.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.