We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

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.

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.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

You either make dust or eat dust.

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

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

This lady is not for turning.

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

My life is a struggle.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

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.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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