It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

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

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

The atom bomb was no ‚great decision.‘ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

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.

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.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

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

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

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.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.