Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.
All great achievements require time.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.