Salman Rushdie Quotes

I have a strong will-power.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Great success is a great temptation.

I think willpower is very valuable.

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

...lest too light winning make the prize light.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

I won't let the sun go down on me.

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

Sometimes when people get success they forget about the people that pointed them there or championed them into this position. I pride myself on really understanding. I wouldn't even call it keeping it real. I just call it keeping it me. When they tell me, "You're doing what you're supposed to do," it makes me go ten times even harder, because I know that there are people on the sidelines and they're watching me. They're cheering for me. I want to be the best me I could possibly be when it comes to them.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.