My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
Lou HoltzHe who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry KissingerIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusWhen defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon HillLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawIf ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham LincolnHe who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich NietzscheFor having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinBy letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao TzuAgainst the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark TwainFaced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
ConfuciusIf man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel KantThe one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
Kevin HartI’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.
Paulo CoelhoI want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
Greta ThunbergWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George OrwellA good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.
Christopher HitchensWe can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen KellerWithout 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.
Angelina JolieI have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.
Greta ThunbergArrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia WoolfIf it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.
Margaret AtwoodI 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.
Neil ArmstrongRespond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao TzuPeople want to feel hopeful.
Michelle ObamaI am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
George LucasWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis BaconIf you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
Mr. TI’m the most stubborn person I know.
Alice WalkerWhen you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
Thich Nhat HanhI think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
Bad BunnyI always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.
EminemDuring 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.
Maya AngelouIt 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.
BuddhaA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William JamesMost great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon HillMan seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSuccess comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
John C. MaxwellWhen I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
Richard P. FeynmanI’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanBut the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl SaganI have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.
Jim MattisThe great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.
Robert GreeneLet a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace ThackerayI never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Harper LeeGreat things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George EliotI think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. LewisI haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
Billy GrahamBecause a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus AureliusTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor DostoevskyLife is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret ThatcherWe can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.
DJ KhaledBefore success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon HillMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyI was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.
Dolly PartonLet me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareCourage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart