The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

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.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I will not be triumphed over.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

‚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.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.