It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Giving up cannot be an option.

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.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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.

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.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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.

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

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

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.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I’m committed to the fight game.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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.