Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. But in the process, I won two heavyweight titles. Not many men can say that.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

There is no success without hardship.

Success is survival.

Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete victory.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.