If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

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

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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

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!

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Success is not a stop sign.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

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

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.