The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

I want people to draw strength from me.

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

Aim for the highest.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

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.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.