I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

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

Never, never, never give up.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

The best way out is always through.

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

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You fail only if you stop writing.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.