Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

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.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

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

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

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

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

God helps those who help themselves.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?