If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Real living is living for others.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

To lead people walk behind them.

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.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.