I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

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.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

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

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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?‘

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.