How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

If you deserve it, go get it.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I 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.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

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

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I worked my face off.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Begin with the end in mind.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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

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.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.