Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Man is not made for defeat.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

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

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Good luck has its storms.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

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.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

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.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.