Douglas Tompkins Quotes

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

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

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

You can always be stronger.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.