The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

This lady is not for turning.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The die is cast.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Never, never, never give up.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

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

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Political courage is not political suicide.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

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

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

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.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.