I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
I always finish what I start.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Never give in and never give up.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.