The only way round is through.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

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

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.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

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

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

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

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

We were poor, but we smiled.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

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

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Get mad, then get over it.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.