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

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

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

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

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

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.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I would fain grow old learning many things.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Knowledge is power.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

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.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

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.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

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

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.