I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
Sometimes I don’t feel good, but when you get in the ring, you can’t say “oh, I feel bad, can we stop?”
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
If it felt good, you didn’t push hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
You have not failed until you quit trying.
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.