There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I will not be triumphed over.

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

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.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

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

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

What keeps me going is goals.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

What is once well done is done forever.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.