I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

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.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

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.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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 most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

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!

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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.

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

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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

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.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.