Dan Pena Quotes

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

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Hard work always wins in the end.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

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

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The whole company of saints bears witness to the unfailing truth that without real effort no one wins the crown

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.

In every sport, there will be struggle and obstacles, but a victory which comes easily is no victory.

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.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

It's really indescribable. All the hard work you put in and all the sacrifices.

Anything worth having is worth working for.

Conquering titles is not very easy.