I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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

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.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for 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.

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.

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

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Iran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

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

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

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

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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!

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.