If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

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.

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

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

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.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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 have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

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.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.