You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I will not be triumphed over.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

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

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘