We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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

You can’t do something forever.

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

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.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

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.