I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

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.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

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

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

We were poor, but we smiled.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

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

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

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

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

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.