My life is a struggle.

This lady is not for turning.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Passions are the gales of life.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Where there is love there is life.