In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

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

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Success is not a stop sign.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

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.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

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

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

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.

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

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Seventy percent of success in life 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.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I am a grafter.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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.