Quotes About Perseverance

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

Timothy Ferriss

Quien trabaja mucho, no trabaja duro".

After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this wouldn't be a mainstream success. So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in mind, speaking directly to them and their problems—problems I long had—and I focused on the unusual options

Would it work? I had no idea, but I did know one thing: If the easy approach failed, the unending-labor-in-the-salt-mines approach was always waiting in the wings.

Cus D'Amato, Mike Tyson's legendary first trainer, famously said: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

como si eso fuera una especie de medalla de honor que simboliza ética laboral,

You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

I've given it to, maybe ten of them have actually opened the book and done the exercises. Of those ten, seven have had books, movies, TV shows,

There is very little luck involved. Winning your great job is about hard work, stamina, grit, ingenuity, and timing.

If you want to be a stud later, you have to be a pud now.

How to Stay Motivated y Secrets of Closing the Sale, de Zig Ziglar:

When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

Here is what Murakami has to say about running, which can be applied to anything: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you think, "Man, this hurts, I can't take it anymore." The "hurt" part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

bien. O podemos recordar el pasado en el que todo estaba bien. Así es como la gente sale de estas cosas.

The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, "sisu"—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you've reached the limits of your abilities. I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is.

he explains the secret of his success this way: "There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan.

La guerra del arte es uno de esos trabajos que te hacen exclamar

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

camino no se acaba nunca y que nadie ha conseguido culminarlo.»

Si te distraes o empiezas a posponerlo, no pierdas los nervios ni caigas en la espiral negativa; retoma con docilidad la tarea número UNO.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

I start watching the Food Network for 1–2 hours a night to decompress from my start-up. Half-asleep one evening, I overhear Bobby Flay say, "Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.