perseverance Quotes

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

I never played with anything like toys.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.