I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

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!

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

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

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

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.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I’m committed to the fight game.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

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.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

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

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Success is not a stop sign.