I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

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

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

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

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

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.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

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

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

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

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

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