Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

I worked my face off.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

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

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

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

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Genius is patience.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

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

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.