I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I 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.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

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

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

There is no substitute for victory.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I’m committed to the fight game.

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.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

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.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.