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.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

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.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

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.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Man is not made for defeat.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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.

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

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I can handle pain.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.