The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

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

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

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.