What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
What is to give light must endure burning.
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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