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

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

By 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.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

Genius is patience.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.