It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Encouragement is a blazing hope.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.