Isaac Asimov Quotes

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

Endurance training is so mental. You just do it. You just can, and you just will, and you just run that far because, you know, I get tired at the first mile. I feel heavy and all of those things, but now I have developed, it's hard to explain... It's a very satisfying place to get into.

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.

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

How you balance class and school and other stuff outside, then working out twice a day - as a freshman, you're thrown right into that. It's good for you. It makes you go through adversity.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

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.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.