I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

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.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

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

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

You can be happy where you are.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

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.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.