Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Small aim is a crime.

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.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Bring them on.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

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.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

The time is always right to do what is right.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

The reward of suffering is experience.

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

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Good luck has its storms.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.