Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

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

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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 hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

I don’t regret anything.

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.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

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

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.