You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Genius is patience.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

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.

You are victors, not victims!

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Bring them on.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

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 a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘