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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Courage is grace under pressure.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

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

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.