Gunnar Peterson Quotes

I like to push myself, you know.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

I have identified my weaknesses, and I am working on those.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

We all have the things that we all have to work on, and things we have to get better at.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.

You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.