Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

There are going to be ups and downs, but you have to have a steady mindset, regardless of the situation you're in.

Instead of letting things break you, look at failures as opportunities to get better. Become unbreakable.

I'm just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren't going your way.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.