It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNeither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. ColeWhat we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.
Conor McGregorI think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.
Beyonce KnowlesYou don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard BransonTrue glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
DJ KhaledI am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham LincolnThe way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly PartonIt is always your next move.
Napoleon HillThe man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
Martin LutherHow great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the GreatI’m committed to the fight game.
Conor McGregorWe never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-PowellThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis BaconDo I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.
Jocko WillinkI can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda MeirI was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
Jocko WillinkDo the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao TzuThere is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur SchopenhauerI do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. RockefellerIt’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Warren BuffettGreat hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHelping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Thomas SowellIf you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Lou HoltzI don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.
Steve JobsEffort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon HillI like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis PresleyThe Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas JeffersonPower is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon BonaparteHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
AristotleNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe RuthFailures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. LewisCertainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
Ernest HemingwayIn difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.
Joel OsteenAs our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas JeffersonI tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
Anthony HopkinsI think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Dolly PartonI do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham LincolnIf you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.
Noam ChomskyIn any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel WashingtonA man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest HemingwayAlthough the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope FrancisI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil ArmstrongMy dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.
Stephen CurryThe last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
The WeekndStrength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThere must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother TeresaWe should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
EpictetusThe man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. ForbesMy mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauReal firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Alexander HamiltonYou have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert KiyosakiIt doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.
Stephen Curry