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

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

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

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

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

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

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

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Our work is never over.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.