Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

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

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

All great achievements require time.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

This lady is not for turning.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people – along with despair about its future.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

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

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.