The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

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

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

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.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

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.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

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.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

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.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

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

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

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

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

My pride fell with my fortunes.

The best way out is always through.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

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