The best way out is always through.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Big results require big ambitions.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

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

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

What one has to do usually can be done.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

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.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.