I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

What keeps me going is goals.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

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

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

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

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.