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

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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.

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.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

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

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

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

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

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

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.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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.

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

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.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

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

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

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.