Quotes About Perseverance

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Blood is just red sweat.

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.