Mr. T Quotes

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say "we don't give up," that's something human beings who win will tell you every time. Breaks will happen. When they happen, you keep the same mind about what you're doing. It's about we the people getting on with our lives and doing it that way.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.