That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

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.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

Success is not a stop sign.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

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

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‚President Can’t Swim.‘

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

My life is a struggle.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.