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

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

The lie is a condition of life.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

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

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Education is the best provision for old age.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

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.‘