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

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

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

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

This lady is not for turning.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

The best way out is always through.

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

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

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.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

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

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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.

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

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.