Fred DeLuca Quotes

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

If you want to achieve something, you're going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.

There's always going to be setbacks.

My improvements, my fights and the competition is going to get better. I'm going to be ready for it.

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

The road to our dreams has many detours.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

The only way round is through.

I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.