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

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

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

You either make dust or eat dust.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Giving up cannot be an option.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

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.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.