The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

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‘.

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

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

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.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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.

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.

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

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

Success is not a stop sign.