Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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.

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

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

He who is brave is free.

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

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

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.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

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

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

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.‘

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.