It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Though here at journey’s end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.
The road goes ever on and on.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar.
No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
Let’s go invent tomorrow!
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.