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.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Well begun is half done.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

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.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

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.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

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

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

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.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

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

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Fortune befriends the bold.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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

You fail only if you stop writing.

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

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.