If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

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

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Losing is tough.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

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

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

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.

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.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

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.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

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.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

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.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!