Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

This lady is not for turning.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

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.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

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

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I like to work and am a focused person.