This lady is not for turning.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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

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.

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

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.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

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

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

My life is a struggle.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.