The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

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.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

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!

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The best way out is always through.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.