Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.

I move on as quickly as possible. I tend to be really hard on myself anyway, which is great for work ethic and such, but sometimes outcomes are just out of your control and there was nothing you could've done anyway. If I'm at fault, I make note and do my best to try again. "No" isn't really a word I understand.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Trying is always enough.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

Make the second effort your second nature.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

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

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.

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.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I will continue as long as I know I have the potential to be the best.