If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

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.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

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.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

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.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

The only way round is through.

Giving up cannot be an option.

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

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

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

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

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

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.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.