Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

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.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

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

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

I worked my face off.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

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.

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.

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.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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