Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

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.

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’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

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

Nothing will work unless you do.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The only way round is through.

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

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

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

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

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

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.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

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.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

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.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.