What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

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

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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.

Losing is tough.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

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

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.