There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
One errs as long as one strives.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.
You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
I'm a big believer that the reception is not the endeavor. And what I enjoy about almost all my work is the endeavor, the doing of something.
We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
The higher a monkey climb, the more he expose.
I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.
I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.
I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
