Bill Cosby on motivation and goals

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’

Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23