It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Genius is patience.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

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.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I am a grafter.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.