Katarina Witt Quotes

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.

You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.

What am I gonna do to be successful and provide for my family? I was like, I want to play basketball, I love basketball, but I'm too short. I'm not gonna cooperate in school... Boxing. I always found boxing, it always came back to boxing, boxing, boxing. Boxing, this is it, this is gonna be the thing gonna take me over the the top.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

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.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

I love challenges.

You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.