"You are only as mentally tough as your life demands you to be. An easy life fashions a mind that can only handle ease. A challenging life builds a mind that can handle challenge. Like a muscle that atrophies without use, mental strength fades unless it is tested. When life doesn't challenge you, challenge yourself."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
"Don't take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It's amazing how often a second try works."
"He conquers who endures."
"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."
"The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like hard work."
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
"If something fails where you thought it would fail, that is not a failure."
"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."
"Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently."
"I have not failed 700 times. I've succeeded in proving 700 ways how not to build a light bulb."
"All the greatest gains in life — in wealth, relationships, or knowledge —come from the magic of compounding interest — amplifying small steady gains. All you need for abundance is to keep adding 1% more than you subtract on a regular basis."
"Tough times never last, tough people do!"
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
"There is never a good time to do the hard things in life."
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up."
"Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes."
"Everything is hard before it is easy. The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a stupid idea."
"A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea."
"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
"There is no limit on better. Talent is distributed unfairly, but there is no limit on how much we can improve what we start with."
"The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge."
"Don't worry how or where you begin. As long as you keep moving, your success will be far from where you start."
"Most overnight successes — in fact any significant successes — take at least 5 years. Budget your life accordingly."
"Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do."
"The temptation to give up will be greatest right before you succeed."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds."
"Be prepared: When you are 90% done any large project (a house, a film, an event, an app) the rest of the myriad details will take a second 90% to complete."
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."