I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

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.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

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

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

It is always your next move.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

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.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.