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

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

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

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

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

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

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

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

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’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘