One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

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.‘

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

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

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

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Americans never quit.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

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

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

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

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.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

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

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.