We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

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

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

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.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

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.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

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.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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