I will not be triumphed over.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

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

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I want people to draw strength from me.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

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

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.