Success Quotes - Page 125

The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.

Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful.

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Success is not a destination, it's a journey.

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

There is no substitute for work.

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.