It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
Ayrton SennaThe ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan PoeI’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.
John WayneA dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin PowellFaith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin LutherI never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.
Ray BradburyThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinFounding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.
Mark ZuckerbergTo 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.
Tom BradyI’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.
George EliotI’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.
DrakeA master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.
Robert GreeneIf you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry FordThe fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellAll I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul AusterWhen you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Mark ZuckerbergIt’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy CarterI wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Paulo CoelhoThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. RooseveltAfter the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.
Tom BradyI began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel CastroI’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.
Dolly PartonTalent without working hard is nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPeople crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeA lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
Virat KohliIf it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Jimmy BuffettOnly the insecure strive for security.
Wayne DyerHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao TzuIt’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.
Stephen CurryWe come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.
Conor McGregorI can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda MeirDream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous HuxleyA word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret AtwoodSome folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘
George W. BushI don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.
John KennedyWhen small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon BonaparteWell begun is half done.
AristotleI knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
Dwayne JohnsonIf you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarThe thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
Ronald ReaganWe must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David ThoreauI have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin DisraeliYour success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerGet busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen KingI am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily DickinsonI am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.
Conor McGregorThe world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon HillI am fearless.
Conor McGregorA man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard ShawWhen you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim RohnMystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Thomas SowellHonestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.
Bad BunnyNever look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David ThoreauPower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiI think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
Richard BransonI 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.
Abraham LincolnThere are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
Nelson MandelaI think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary