"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."
"If you think the pain of making a necessary change is too much for you to endure, wait until you one day experience the pain of having not changed, and when there's not enough time in your life left to take back control of where you are, how you are and what you are."
"My body knows its limits, my mind just refuses to accept them"
"People ask why I train so much and eat like I do all the time. Well the answer is simple: I will not allow somebody with twice the genetics and half the determination be better than me"
"Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level." - Bruce Lee
"It takes a strong mind to challenge the body, and even greater mind to challenge others. But it takes a courageous mind to challenge ones own mind, old beliefs and old habits."
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."
"Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently."
"No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."
"Storms make trees take deeper roots."
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough"
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."
"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."
"I knew from feelings that I had to do something. And I did it. And I did it well. I did what made me feel better tomorrow even though it was very, very painful at the time. The result was beneficial. Doing those things today that feel good tomorrow." - Thomas D. Willhite
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays."
"It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance."
"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do."
"You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up."
"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
"Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today."
