When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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‘.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

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.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

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

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.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

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.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

Americans never quit.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

It is always your next move.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

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.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

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

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.