I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

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.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

What is once well done is done forever.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

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

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

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

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

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.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.