“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

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

If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another until you succeed.

You become what you think about.

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

When opportunity came, the person didn’t realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I’ve made an effort.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

Do not let fear overcome your efforts.

I don’t like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.