Quotes About Persistence

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.

...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

Rage, recover, repeat.

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.

I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.