Quotes About Perseverance

After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best - the 'jugaadu'-best.

I've tasted the bitter beatings.

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

If you want the belt, you have to go drive it through and try to get it like I did against Miesha Tate.

My motto is 'from difficulties up to the stars.' I got a tattoo to represent that when I used to sit in the stands at Treviso.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

The Olympic Rings tattoo has played its part and will continue to motivate me.

I believe I can be one of the best players in the world. That's why I have my 'Dreamchaser' tattoo on my chest.

I've been through so much pain in life, what's a tattoo?

It's hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn't having to roll around and train all the time.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I look at tattoos as a commitment to life.

I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'

If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to be your best.

I know what martial arts have done for me. They've taught me integrity, self-control, perseverance and an indomitable spirit.

My father has been a motivation in my life, he always taught me to be a self-made man because he also started with nothing.

To me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is definitely a landmark. It has taught me so much.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.