When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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 am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

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

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Success is not a stop sign.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.