When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

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

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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.

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

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Americans never quit.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.