Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

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

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

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

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

The reward of suffering is experience.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.