I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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.

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.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

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.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

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.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

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.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.