Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.
The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.
You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.
Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!
There's something about my Mexican-American heritage. . . I'm proud of it.
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.