The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

I dwell in possibility.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Americans never quit.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.