I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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!

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

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.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.