Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I ran and ran and ran every day and I acquired this sense of determination this sense of spirit that I would never never give up no matter what else happened.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.