We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

This lady is not for turning.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Nothing will work unless you do.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

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.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.