In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I...

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love &...

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep...

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner...

As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work....

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty...

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo...

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit....

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

If I see a door coming my way I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

To be somebody you must last.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

The best way out of a problem is through it.