Quotes About Determination

Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.

I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity; I have discipline; I have focus. And I know without any illusion where I come from and what I can go back to.

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.

I learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute.

I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.

I don't ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.

If you're finding life to be the one thing that's trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.

A man drove himself insane He was driven Insane At least he was driven I don't know about you But it sure seems better Than just sitting around talking about it

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

For me, many albums are much more than a collection of songs. They're testaments to the courage to live above the minimum requirements of merely getting by.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you?re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.

The iron is the best antidepressant I have every found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the body and the mind have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.