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

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

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

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

An army marches on its stomach.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

The best way out is always through.

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.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.